Quotes About Jewish Mothers

#1. All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

Padma Lakshmi

#2. I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

Colin Trevorrow

#3. Naturally, my Jewish mother, like all Jewish mothers, wanted me to be a doctor, or a lawyer... or as she used to say, "Be something!" I wanted to be a cartoonist. Oy vey, a cartoonist was not on her list... I

Gideon Amichay

#4. As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

Judy Gold

#5. I resign," says Velvel. He takes off his glasses, slips them into his pocket, and stands up. He forgot an appointment. He's late for work. His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.

Michael Chabon

#6. I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

Garry Shandling

#7. Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

#8. I want to get off with the screenwriting.

Obie Trice

#9. With each festering carcass Neko passed on the wayside, he accepted that death was as much a reality as his morning commute to work. He

T.S. Pettibone

#10. A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.

George Herbert

#11. Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

Eve Ensler

#12. Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

Kallistos Ware

#13. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love .

George Eliot

#14. Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work ... hard work of course!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

Jean Rhys

#16. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

Oswald Chambers

#17. Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Harry Lorayne

#18. Learning is good in and of itself ... the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

George H. W. Bush

#19. I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

Angela Lansbury

#20. A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

Albert Pujols

#21. The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

George William Russell

#22. This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

Dante Alighieri